Qom
"qom" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Qom” is uncommon English (frequency #93,052 among 288 “Q” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,052
- frequency rank, English
- 288
- “Q” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
Corpus desk
Index EN-qom · Qom · English
Qom · rank #93,052 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,052
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 288
- PHOTO-FINISH punning
Nearest frequency peer: punning (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Qom”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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What this shows Bars show where “Qom” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Qom |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #93,052 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Qom” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Qom is uncommon English at frequency #93,052 among 288 “Q” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Qom doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Iranian Persian قم (qom), from Classical Persian قم (qum). The correct English form is Qom, spelled Q-O-M.
Definition
- 1A city in Iran, the seat of Qom County's Central District and the capital of Qom Province, a shrine city and center of Shi'ite seminarian learning.
- 2A county of Iran, around the city.
- 3A province of Iran.
Etymology
Borrowed from Iranian Persian قم (qom), from Classical Persian قم (qum).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.